The new Jaguar XK has won an engineering and technology prize at a road safety award ceremony.
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It was awarded at the Prince Michael International road safety awards in London on Tuesday (6 December). Jaguar was recognised for safety innovation in the XK sports car – which has a pedestrian deployable bonnet.
Legislation in the European market requires manufacturers to commit to a two-phase introduction of a range of active and passive safety improvements on all new cars to improve the protection of pedestrians in case of accident. Jaguar has met phase one of new European safety legislation using an active deployable bonnet system.
Upon impact, the deployable bonnet on the new XK automatically ‘pops’ up a few inches, to increase space between the engine and the bonnet. This helps to isolate the pedestrian from hard points in the engine compartment. A sensing system is mounted in the front bumper to help discriminate between a pedestrian collision and any other possible front-end collisions.
The new XK will be launched early in 2006.
